Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond felt pleasantly stimulated as he swung down the platform to his car, and handed his valise to the porter. Examinations weren't so bad after all, be thought, but the best thing about them was their end. Might as well slip into the diner now, before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something...
...Episcopal) Cathedral in Washington last fortnight. Having elected most of the delegates, leaders among the electors last week sought for a label by which they might designate the unity movement. "Protestant" and "evangelical" they decided against since their projected Council would include Anglicans and Eastern Catholics. "Non-Roman," they felt, implied opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. So they decided to adopt and popularize the word "ecumenical," from the Greek meaning "the inhabited world...
Sparks Sorlien cased through his trial heat in the 300 to make a qualifying second place, and in the finals he came in third, Hobart Lerner '40 felt as he rounded the first turn in his trial heat, Gaining his feet he raced on barely to be nipped at the tape for the qualifying second place position...
...impulse is initiated within the brain-that is, by the cerebral cortex. The incitation passes to the hippocampus, where it is built up into an emotional process. This passes through the mamillary body, thence to the gyrus cinguli and so back to the cortex where the emotional experience is felt...
This fact, plus droughts and increasing mechanization of agriculture, he continued, means that the pinch is now being felt among many farm groups, an example being some 300 sharecropping families in Lee County, Texas who "are literally in danger of starvation as every penny of their share of the cotton crop has been required to pay their debts to the land-lords." Ordinarily, said Secretary Wallace, the landlords would carry the sharecroppers until next summer, but because of low cotton prices the landlords are almost as badly off themselves. "Local agencies, likewise, are utterly unable to provide any kind...